Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-15
NEWS DE THE DAY.

TWenty.one new case of yellow fever
were reported at Key West yesterday.
Judge Allan G. Thurman writes to his
son that he will not accept nomination as
a candidate for governor OF Ohio.
Friedrich Krupp, the well-know German
metal founder and gigantic steel gun man.
ufacturer, died yesterday in his villa near
Essen, Rheni5h Prussia. Herr Krupp was
born at Essen in 1872.
Leonard SWEET, the noted lawyer and
former partner of Abraham Lincoln, took
out license in Chicago yesterday to marry
Marie Decker. MIR. SWEET is 81 years of age
and his intended bride is 80.
A sut for damages brought by Miss Cora
White, a young lady of high standing, of
Richie county, w. Va, against wealthy
Young farmer, John Kinney, for defamation
of character, has just ended. The plaintiff
gels $1,000 damages.
The financial affairs of ex.Congressman
James W. Reid. of North Carolina, have
lust been satisfactorily adjusted by relatives
and friends in Virginia and North Carolina.
He is expected in Washington in few
days. He will resume the practice OF law
MI. Jay Cooke, son of the former govern
or of the District, is reported to be dying ut
his mothers residence. in Georgetown, OF
Bfights disease. He is about thirty years
DID, and for two years past has been in
the brokerage business with Mr.. Butler
Malone.
The Cincinnati limited express coming
east and the Chicago express going west
collided at siding on the main stem of the
| B. & O. at GaitheTsburg, Montgomery coun-
i
gentleman were injured and several cars
were derailed, causing delay of SIX hours
Major John S. VandegraG, before the war
one of the most noted lawyers in Texas
died last week st the poor-house farm at
Austin. He served in the Confederate
army, but came out OF it a wreck and en-
shaved by whisky. He is known to have
killed two men in drunken ARRAYS since the
war.
A vessel named Now Then, designed by
Herreshoff, recently completed for MIR.
Munro, of New York, made the remarkable
speed of IS miles an hour on Wednesday.
She is faster vessel than the Stletto, by
the same designer. She has 81 feet Of
length at the water line, 10 feet beam, and
draws three feet three inches OF water.
Major ]. w. Powell, director of the geo.
logical survey, has submitted to the Score,
tary of the Interior for his approval
plan of operations for the geological sur
vey for the present fiscal year. The re-
port says a promising line of investigation
along the Atlantic slope relates to the green
sand marls of Virginia and the Caroians.
1t is not realized by the citizens OF those
States that there lie within low eastward
hills sources of untold wealth. which will
eventually revolutioniZe the agricultural
methods pursued in these States, in the
shape OF just such green sands and marls as
lave within the past generation transformed
the sand wastes of New Jersey into veritable
i gardens.
It. James W. Graydon, U. S. N, inventor
of a new method Of using dynamite in naval
warfare, in indianapolis, on Wednesday,
filed a suit for divorce from his wife. He
alleges that two years ago, while he was
engaged in making experiments in warfare
for the Chinese government at Hong Hong,
his wife asked him while he was ill for
blank check on his bank to enable her TO
get money she needed for household ex-
penses. He gave her the check, and she
filled it out for $27 ,000 his entire balance.
After drawing the money she sailed for
America After fulfilling his contract with
the Chinese government he came to this
country to hunt for her and his children,
but has been unable to find them.